Leg evolution made most humans right-handed

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...
Publishers Weekly

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman, professor of human evolution at Harvard, leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces ...
The Conversation

The human body isn’t a masterpiece of design – it’s a patchwork of evolutionary compromise

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...
Yale Environment 360

Study sheds light on the genetic changes that shaped human brain evolution

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...
KUOW

This Seattle author tells the 'deeper truth of our species' and evolution through the female body

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...